Timothy H. Sexton

In December 2022, Timothy Sexton survived a botched suicide attempt. By the following spring, he had published Misogyny in Mayberry: How Television’s Folksiest Town Warned of the MAGAts Among Us and the YA novella Haunted Halloween Hayride. In February he began working on the novel Triggered: The Story of a School Shooting which he completed and published in March. Before the year was out, he had written The Auteur, The Ghost Writer’s Ghost, and The Effigist, a novella of speculative fiction about the January 6 insurrection which he then chose to publish on the third anniversary of that event in 2024

Thereafter, Mr. Sexton set for himself a personal challenge to write and publish a novel each month of 2024. That effort produced the novels January 86, My Imaginary Friend Has Multiple Personalities and One of Them Thinks He’s Me, Bride of the Frankensteins, Concept Abum: A Novel, Someone’s Banging on Your Door, Why Must I be a Whiny Werewolf Suffering from Depression? and Why’s in Left, a fictionalization of the JonBenet Ramsey case.

Desperate Maneuvers: A Novelization of the Screenplay Featured in The Auteur, the second entry in the author’s Auteur-verse series, Desperate Maneuvers II: The Rise of the Jilly-GOATS, volume three in the series, The Confessions of McKenna Lee, volume four, as well as volume five, Desperate Maneuvers III Or: How the Jilly-GOATS Killed the Kakistocracy So We Could Stop Worrying and Talking Movies with Juniper Eucalyptus were also written as part of this challenge which he successfully completed.

Just Another Day in America: A Complete Episode Guide to The Cult TV Show continued this challenge into the next year when it was written and published in January 2025. It was followed by The Assassinations of Donald Trump in February, Touched by the Hand of God in March, A Cacophony of Crepuscular Creatures in April, its sequel Jensen After Cherry in May, its prequel, Cherry Before Jensen in June, The Passions of The Tinker Bell in July, A Puppet and the Girl Who Looked Like Chloë Grace Moretz in August and its sequel, There but for the Grace of Stacy in September, Abbott & Costello Meet J. Edgar Hoover in October, Living in Their Own Public Idaho in November, and The Stiff in December

In January 2026 he began his third straight year of writing a novel each month with the publication of The Self-Portraitist followed by We Buried Paul in February, Destiny’s Date with Infinite Temporal Duration in March and Swimming Like Dolphins can Swim in April.